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Sunday, July 8. 2012

Flying mini-robots

Do you want these in the hands of your local government?  On the other hand, these cool gizmos might make fun targets with #8 or #9 birdshot.


 


Posted by Bird Dog at 17:18 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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Falconry is the remedy: fun, safe, and educational. And a great way to ensure privacy.
#1 chuck on 2012-07-08 17:26 (Reply)
It's not just the gov't. Lots of people will have these. One more way in which the future is a fishbowl.
#2 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2012-07-08 19:42 (Reply)
A good ole 22 would even the challenge and be fun.....
#3 dorf on 2012-07-08 19:42 (Reply)
Solution: Mini EMP devices to short circuit anything within a certain range. Oh, those will be fun!
#4 molloaggie on 2012-07-09 01:45 (Reply)
Insect-size flying robots are under development.
Our governments promise never use them against us.
Remember their promise not to use our social security numbers as national IDs to track us?
American privacy is moribund.
American freedom is in the E.R.
#5 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2012-07-09 06:03 (Reply)
These are not the threat - the threat is from autonomous nanobots that you inhale or ingest which will track your every movement, thought and action. :>)
#6 Tom Francis on 2012-07-09 06:32 (Reply)
BD:

"might make fun targets with #8 or #9 birdshot."

You obviously didn't watch the video in my last 'Big Brother' post. In regards to your comment, it raises a good question:

What if it shoots back?
#7 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-07-09 10:21 (Reply)
Well then, I guess we need hunter killer quadrocopters to hunt down the invaders. Every home a castle, every day a battle. Hey, I bet that would drive weapons innovation to WWII levels.
#7.1 chuck on 2012-07-09 13:51 (Reply)
Wake up We the People! Seems like everything under 500 ft agl is non-Federal airspace, therefore still owned by Us. So it's pretty simple: any drone under 500 ft specifically gathering information on a "person of interest" requires a served search warrant. So if you see a drone hovering or orbiting over your property, and you haven't been served with a warrant, or agreed to by a private operator, you will assume it's illegal, and are free to defend your property rights.

In about one year we'll see the first privately made example of somebody with a laser that ionizes a channel for a lightning bolt to travel through. That's gonna be an awesome toy. I bet they'll call it the phaser. There's the drone killer. You should also be able to create your own RC drone kamikaze. They sell 'em now at the local RC shop. Since the drone is looking down, the operators will never know why they suddenly crashed.
#8 John A. Fleming on 2012-07-09 17:40 (Reply)
And don't forget: paint-ball ack-ack, from a compressed-air spud gun, use an optical tracker with autofocus to get elevation and distance,and drive the az/el servos. Just need a way for the paint ball misses to disintegrate before they come back down.
#9 John A. Fleming on 2012-07-09 17:47 (Reply)

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